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Re: silent R

Is the letter "R" always silent at the end of syllables or there are some cases where "final r" is pronounced??

Can you please provide me with some examples?

Thanks a lot.

I presume you are talking about words like "car", "lobster" and "hear".

It is all about accents - speakers with rhotic accents usually pronounce the final "r", people with non-rhotic accents usually don't.

The typical American accent is rhotic, the typical British accent is non-rhotic.

Beyond that, it gets complicated - some American accents are non-rhotic, some British accents are rhotic and sometimes people with rhotic accents pronounce the final r. Wikipedia has an article on this.

Re: silent R

I presume you are talking about words like "car", "lobster" and "hear".

It is all about accents - speakers with rhotic accents usually pronounce the final "r", people with non-rhotic accents usually don't.

The typical American accent is rhotic, the typical British accent is non-rhotic.

Beyond that, it gets complicated - some American accents are non-rhotic, some British accents are rhotic and sometimes people with rhotic accents pronounce the final r. Wikipedia has an article on this.

Re: silent R

There's also another factor, besides accent, namely unclear pronunciation. I recently heard a person pronouncing "ragged" as "agged", which doesn't have anything to do with rhoticity I believe. The same person pronounced "darn" in a non-rhotic way even though she was from the Midwest.